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daniellekinsey.bsky.social
historian of 19C Britain & Empire, diamonds, history of the body, material culture, consumption, minerals & mining, teaching & learning, Carleton U, settler🏳️‍🌈 co-editor-in-chief @h-materialculture.bsky.social
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Our NiCHE Conversation with @camillemarys.bsky.social & @ellietheelement.bsky.social is now availablee on YouTube! They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss their recent special issue of Museum & Society on Mobilizing Museum Minerals www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsud... #envhist #museums

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Just read Ruby Ellis, ‘The Hideous Old Lady of Fashion’: dressing the ageing body in Victorian Britain, Historical Research, Volume 97, Issue 278, Nov 2024, 510–533, with my 4th-year fashion history class and they loved it! Recommend. #MaterialCulture #FashionHistory academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

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EVENT: For the start of our Spring Lecture Series, author and historian Paul Greenhalgh takes us on a journey through the World’s Fairs & Expositions from 1851-2010, their changing formats and ephemeral vistas. 🗓️ Thu 30 Jan 2025, 6:30pm 📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online 🎟️ www.c20society.org.uk/events

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Another filthy morning here, so it's certainly a day for The Best Cartoon:

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NEWS: C20 is leading efforts to save Bath Fire Station from proposed demolition. The 1930s classical Art Deco building was a rare pre-war project by a female architect, and went on to play a crucial role in protecting the city during the Baedeker Blitz of 1942. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-lea...

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Please join us for the launch of the Special Issue of Museum & Society: Mobilizing Museum Minerals! This double issue critically reconsiders mineralogical and geological collections in museums. Tues Jan 28 2025– 11:00 ET Zoom Registration: #MaterialCulture westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Studying, researching or teaching histories of Britain or Ireland ? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today

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The journal Settler Colonial Studies seeks a new associate editor: #skystorians #colonialism

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Interested in the cultures of gold and diamond mining and racial capitalism? Listen to this podcast the team at Imperial Minerals made from a fun roundtable I was involved in alongside Rebecca Macklin and Nick McGee. Thank you @gigitang.bsky.social and @sarahcomyn.bsky.social! #MiningHistory

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ICYMI: Check out this special issue of Mobilizing Museum Minerals on Mobilizing Museum Minerals. It's open-access!! niche-canada.org/2024/12/16/s... #envhist #nathist #histsci #museums

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This just out: Antoinette Burton in conversarion about Gender History: A Very Short Introduction #skystorians open.spotify.com/episode/53Nz...

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Funded PhD Studentship, UCL History, project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo...

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Britain sends hard drives with digitalized images and archival files back to Kenya - including materials on the Mau Mau insurgency and intelligence of anti-colonial leaders. nation.africa/kenya/news/b...

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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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So excited to have my article "Diamonds and Emotions in the Minerals Gallery: Civilizing Emodities in the Age of Liberal Empire" included in this sensational double-issue! journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/ma... Thank you, Camille & Ellie! #extractivism #emotions #skystorians

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seems like diamonds are always a government’s best friend www.gov.uk/government/n...

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